City and nation : rethinking place and identity / edited by Michael Peter Smith and Thomas Bender.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Michael P.

Bender, Thomas.

Series:

Comparative urban and community research ; v. 7.

Comparative urban and community research ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization.

Community development, Urban.

City and town life--History.

City and town life.

Sociology, Urban.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 244 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick [N.J.] : Transaction Publishers, [2001]

Contents:

1. The Localization of Modernity / Michael Peter Smith, Thomas Bender 1

2. Violence of Categories: Urban Design and the Making of Indonesian Modernity / Abidin Kusno 15

3. Stability in Flux: The Ambivalence of State, Ethnicity and Class in the Forging of Modern Urban Malaysia / Beng Lan Goh 51

4. The Local Articulation of Nationality: The Value of Historicity and "National Essence" in Republican China's Urban Modernity / Peter Carroll 97

5. The State, The City and The Priest: Political Participation and Conflict Resolution in Independence-Era Central America / Jordana Dym 136

6. Cosmopolitan Topographies of Paris: Citing Balzac / Camilla Fojas 181

7. Mexican Past and Mexican Presence in San Antonio's Market Square: Capital, Tourism and the Creation of the Local / Karl Hagstrom Miller 206.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0765808714

9780765808714

OCLC:

45636842